Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-04
MOMVANI SEMpNR AXHNRI.
SIDEWALK PR4FTLE Il.

The hooi'ums have qni-t.d Il w.
Let IA have church tu CIR ,nrevil q.
Young m N, tnere is plenty If room
on top.
Sharpen your scissors with thre. =
cornered file.
Next year all legal holidays will
come on Sunday.
What this country needs is less taffy
and more 'las~es.
The thermometer has touched zer"
only once this winter.
The most discouraging thing about
woman s woman herself.
The legislature will adjourn sine die
at midnight on Thursd ~ next.
People who are here from Kansas
felt pretty much at home during the
gale last week.
A whole lot of the bows wrote letters
to Doug. Holton congratulating him on
his recent marriage.
We want somebody in each precinct
of this county to act the part of a good
fisherman and drop us line"
| The entertainment announced by the
brass band for st. Valentines day has
been indefinitely postponed.
There is hopeful feeling in this
community that the present year will
be year of good times on the prairie.
Lay in your stock of seeds for next
spring at once, and have everything
ready beforehand, so as to lose no time
in the busy spring season.
Blow, bIuster, blizzard; snow, snew,
SHOWN, with alternate chinook BREATH
ing spells. is concise weather report
for the last ten days.
The chances are favorable for great
European war IN the spring, as the
powers are sassing each other in angry
back-talk, whi'h generally end. in fight.
Leland has eight railroads building to
Lewiston. The trade down there will
just about tax the facilities of one car
per day to handle it until the reserva-
tion is opened.
A COW county exchange remarks /:
"Bro. Parker of the FREE Press is a
high-kicker. and over-reaches now and
then. but he prints very pretty paper
and fills it we'll"
The registration act passed the coun
eli by vote of nine to three. Larimer
Watson and NJ ,yhew were the three
nays. The bill is an insult to the COM
mon sense of the people.
| The cattle hereabouts are in excellent
trim to stand long continued cold
snap. This We are not likely to have,
as We are already in February, and the
feed has not been touched yet.
Deep snow in the mountains means
plenty of water in the mines and
CORE 'ponding increase in gold prdur-
tion, which always brings good times
and eases local financial matters.
The snow is very deep in the monnt-
aims and they apprehenA high water in
| Lewiston next June, but the water
won't hurt them if it washes that mall
aria breeding naStiness out ofthe soil.
While nut hunting the other day We
Galloway fired three shots at one OF
Henry Jrhnsrn's cows, thinking it was
an elk. He missed the elk hut Grip
pled a sheep 200 yards beyond. The
neighbors all hurrah for Vic.
Two dogs got into an argument on
Main street last Sunday, and the small
boys from Sunday school, two mer
chants, a doctor, editor, sunday school
teacher and two pretty girls, all stopped
to see which dog would let go first
The singing class which Mr.. Weeks
has been putting off so long on acrount
of the weather, organised last week
with twenty members, which will be
increased as the school advances. The
school meets for practise at the grange
hall every Tuesday evening.
Mr.. G,pson and two sons. Boar Pete.
L. II. Hartman and Hll- M ,rris have
been hunting deer on White Bird for
the past ten davs. The boys have had
hard weather, aud we hope they will
return with enough meat and pelts to
recompense them tor their hardships.
r. d. Shearer purchased recently
w. Vincent's house located up at the
sawmill in the foot hills south of town.
Next week he will hoist the house on
TO stout bobsle'is and slide it down to
,own and plant it on his lots on second
North and Coon streets, cornering or
the academy block. G. 5. Gregory ais
bought three lots on the same bloch
this week.
Eight inches of snow fell on the prai'
rie Monday night. and the circum'
stance has been so rare for the past few
winters here that everybody who coulc
muster up some kind of rig has beer
, enjoying the luxury of sleign rides eve